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Benjamin Franklin Bache (August 12, 1769 – September 10, 1798) was an American journalist, printer and publisher. He founded the Philadelphia Aurora, a newspaper that supported Jeffersonian philosophy.
Born on 12 August 1769, Bache was soon taken under the mentorship of his famous grandfather, Benjamin Franklin. In 1776, when Franklin went on a nine-year diplomatic mission to France, he took the seven-year-old Bache with him so that the child would get an enlightened education.
Benjamin Franklin Bache, born on August 12, 1769, carried the legacy of one of America's most iconic statesmen, being the direct grandson of the illustrious Benjamin Franklin. Born to Sarah Franklin Bache and Richard Bache, he was thrust into a lineage of intellectual prominence and civic duty.
Benjamin Franklin Bache, grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was a journalist, the founder of the Philadelphia General Advertiser, and supporter of Jefferson’s Republican party. In these two pieces he sympathetically summarized the situation in France during the period when Louis XVI was put on trial and executed.
Benjamin Franklin Bache was the printer and publisher of the Philadelphia Aurora, a leading Democratic-Republican newspaper in the 1790s. During his short life, Bache became a vocal critic of the early Federalist Party and George Washington’s administration.
7 giu 2017 · Benjamin Franklin Bache was the founder and editor of the Aurora. Courtesy of American Philosophical Society, Bache Papers, Castle Collection. As founder of the Aurora newspaper, Benjamin Bache was a vocal opponent of the Washington and Adams administrations, and outspoken supporter of Jefferson.
Between the turbulent years of 1793 and 1798, Bache was the young nation's leading political journalist and a sharp critic of the Federalists and their policies. As editor of the most important radical newspaper of the 1790s, he lived at the center of most of the political storms of that decade.
